As long as it's not EPD Tokyo (7 years and 9 months between their new games) or Retro Studios (11 years and 9 months between their new games), it's hard to complain. Heck, Team Asobi shipped a GOTY winner in less than 3.5 years!
And SP in the last five years released GoT, GoT remaster (+ Iki Island) and GoY, which sounds about right for a studio half the size.
You're definitely arguing in bad faith. EPD Tokyo released Bowsers Fury in between Odyssey and Bananza, so that 7 year number is directly coming out of your ass.
No Ray tracing, GTA6 and Assassins Creed Shadows have RT GI, this doesn't even have basic RT shadows. Doesn't even have the seasons system from Assassin's Creed Shadows, I bet you shadows will be the better looking game on PC when yotei releases there.
Every recent game was affected by that tho.
Okay, under that logic, please explain why you talk of Sucker Punch taking 5 years to release Ghost of Yotei when they had Iki Island in 2021.
Heavy support on what, exactly? That Wii U game that got canned was actually being worked as a Switch project, before it was ultimately scrapped in the last half of 2018 when they got appointed to work on Metroid Prime 4.
160 is the only official number and it's rare for studios to grow to that size in that time, especially when SP has barely been hiring. So yes, pretty much half the size.
You can make a great GameBoy game in less than 7 weeks.
What about comparisons like this? why are the trolls only cherry picking bad ones?
This is still generous to got. it was 1080p30fps game on ps4
Look in the other thread voting for most overrated system and it's also ps5.
What kind of excuse is that?
No, it has the same precanned death animations with no ragdoll in 2025.
What the hell? The lack of ragdolls were bad 5 years ago but today it is just plain embarrassing and frankly just weirdNo, it has the same precanned death animations with no ragdoll in 2025.
Sucker punch is allergic to ragdoll, they probably can't fine tune it so they cut it off entirely to not have silly looking stuff in their samurai game where a 50 kg chick slay thousands of brutes
Don't ask me, i side-eye any game after the ps2 era who still use precanned death animations with no ragdoll.
All this love for samurai and japanese culture ... with a girlboss lead. Go figure.
Fenómeno, máquina, the assets need to be work on, and game designers work constantly on even the more long living and immutable GaaS, let alone a game with new systems and combat.
Phase Duration Description Conceptualization Weeks to a few months Focuses on brainstorming ideas, defining the core concept, and drafting the Game Design Document (GDD). Typically, it lasts 1 to 2 months for more minor games. Pre-Production Several weeks to a year Solidifies design elements and technical requirements, planning the game's structure and defining mechanics. Production (Development and Art Creation) Months to years The most intensive phase, taking 2 to 3 years for medium to large-scale games, involves asset creation and coding gameplay mechanics. Quality Assurance (QA) Weeks to months Focuses on identifying and fixing bugs, optimizing performance, and fine-tuning gameplay to ensure readiness for launch. Launch Days to weeks Involves final preparations for release, including distribution decisions and marketing efforts. Post-release Maintenance Ongoing Includes bug fixes, patches, and updates based on player feedback, along with developing additional content to keep the game engaging.
Now, since this is a AAA open-world game we can use the above table and take the highest values from the examples. So 6 months for Conceptualisation, 1 year for Pre-Production, 3 years for Production plus a few months for QA and Certification and there you go OP, almost 5 years when you draw the line. This is the ideal case where there are no setbacks of missed deadlines and everything just goes buttery smooth, which is almost never the case cause games are very complex pieces of software and multidisciplinary products with a lot of spinning plates during production.
How about we start using critical thinking, a bit of learning and we stop making silly troll threads based on profound ignorance
Thanks for the reply, I was using critical thinking cause if you've noticed I assumed the team worked with an ideal scenario of everything going right and they would have worked on nothing else. However, as others have pointed out they worked on both a good chunk of DLC that includes a whole new island and the PS5 version of the game during these 5 years. Which means Yotei didn't take 5 years of dev time to begin with and it was probably closer to 3, is it not? If we use that critical thinking we both talk about.
First off, I already said Retro crapped the bed so I don't now why you're preaching about retro. I was just refuting your claim that they went 11 years without a release.
I had this thought. I was thinking about what if Sony sat on DS2 and GoY for a while to drop them now to show they have a big game each quarter from here on out. I'd love to see that and it's make the gap on releases lately worth it.
Sony studios mostly subhire asset creation to Chinese
Kojima thats why. If it was made by Ubisoft youd hear a lot more complaints. Gaf is the epitome of double standards.
Meh. There's a pretty obvious Kill Bill connection with this as well. The yellow color scheme and revenge tale?
Despite all that it takes time. As we say in coding: nine women don't give birth in one month. I mean, the Zelda guys took longer to reuse the same map and add a cave, c'mon!
If it was batshit crazy and highly stylized like kill bill it could work, but they are taken seriously, which for me dosent.
Yep. I didn't like RDR2 but I respect it because I can see that it's a beautiful and ambitious game.
